Open thread: Sunday morning talking heads

posted at 8:01 am on January 19, 2014 by Allahpundit

It’s wall-to-wall NSA coverage this morning in honor of Obama’s pretend-reform speech on Friday, featuring the same stable of Sunday-show mainstays that are always booked for this topic — Dianne Feinstein, Mike Rogers, Michael Hayden, and a few former Obama staffers like Tom Donilon and Mike Morell. As far as I know, with the sole exception of Mark Udall on “Face the Nation,” not a single guest appearing this a.m. wants a major overhaul of the agency.

The one significant deviation from the script is “This Week,” which will have Stephanopoulos interviewing Vladimir Putin about Olympic security, Snowden, Obama’s embarrassing amateurishness on Syria, and the many political benefits at home and abroad of demagoging gays. The full line-up is at Politico.

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NBC’s “Meet the Press” with David Gregory, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) questioned how the former NSA contractor arranged travel out of the United States before leaking the trove of secret documents and eventually making his way to Russia.

“Let me just say this. I believe there’s a reason he ended up in the hands, the loving arms, of an FSB agent in Moscow,” Rogers said. “I don’t think that’s a coincidence.”

Mike Rogers is attacking the messenger. Snowden could get his orders straight from Satan and it wouldn’t change what the NSA has done.

PersonFromPorlock on January 19, 2014 at 8:25 AM

While I would tend to agree that the NSA has way overstepped its boundaries and action needs to be taken to be reined in NOW, and not some BS CYA type fix, I can’t bring myself to consider Snowden a hero or a saint. Too many of us tend to think of terms of good vs. bad, but in this case, there is no good to be found.

Juan Williams beclowns himself 97% of the time he speaks. I guess he thinks it’s his responsibility to enunciate the liberal agenda day in and day out. He and Pat Leahy are reliably anti-Republican in every turn of the political path. Every. Turn.

“This Week,” which will have Stephanopoulos interviewing Vladimir Putin about Olympic security, Snowden, Obama’s embarrassing amateurishness on Syria, and the many political benefits at home and abroad of demagoging gays.

What?? You mean to say Georgie will not be asking Vlad his stance on contraception and abortion?

I thought he did that for everybody, because nonpartison press or something.

Putin’s “leave the kids alone” statement is so ridiculous. Putin knows many gay people and knows that most sexual predators attack children of the opposite sex. This is about appealing to ignorant right wing nationalists. That American social cons are applauding him is disgusting. Then again, American social cons are behind Uganda’s gay death penalty law.

When I see what the 0bama/Holder administration does to whistle blowers and perceived enemies, such as the tea party, I would make sure if I had something important to disclose, I would be as far away as I could be from them. It would be in the “arms” of a government who is hostile to the U.S., otherwise 0bama’s long tentacles would crush me.

libfreeordie: how do you explain the Catholic/priest scandal?

Had no idea that “social cons” are responsible for ugandas….If you’re going to make assertions, you had better back it up.

the ignorance here no longer surprises me. What Putin is is doing to gays is exactly what every fascistic dictator has done: name a group as traitors and do everything in their power to get rid of said traitors. No surprise that it comes from the former head of the KGB.

Ah, the Sunday Morning Political Talk Shows, wherein a sect of self-appointed wealthy elitists with a single worldview engage in an active propaganda campaign directed at normal Americans, effectively on behalf of one political party. But let us not forget that these elitists find frequent common cause with the left edge of the GOP (“RINOs”), which shares much of their worldview and is increasingly aligned with the left against our interests as conservatives.

Long-winded introduction. Let’s have a gander at the breakdown from an ideological perspective:

Putin’s “leave the kids alone” statement is so ridiculous. Putin knows many gay people and knows that most sexual predators attack children of the opposite sex. This is about appealing to ignorant right wing nationalists. That American social cons are applauding him is disgusting. Then again, American social cons are behind Uganda’s gay death penalty law.

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It’s much, much easier to foul up a conservative nest, wherein the virtues of free speech and freedom of opinion are observed than it is to sue for “cake hate.” The latter is so time-consuming and requires a modicum of authenticity, if not outright demonstration of hatred from an identifiable person.

Mike Rogers is living proof that the USA is run by morons, idiots, from pajama-obama, to the Ds like Feinstein and the so-called Rs like stupid Rogers. His idiocy is scarier than the Chinese and Putin, combined. What should scare the American people is their own idiotic and thuggish gov’t.

liblikeaslave, Uganda is responsible for all that, and Putin is a big thug, whom your pajama-idiot enables.

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